Best Seinfeld shtick mimicry : So what's the deal with group 7 ? [puzzled looks in the audience, and no laughter]
No, not the rockers, rappers or halogens, and not the G7 money-baggers ... nothing to do with the New World Order ... cough, cough ... unless this message is being channeled from the Illuminati. You know: group 7 in the periodic table, aka column 7B. It's really a group of one, essentially, since all the others besides manganese are artificial, unstable, radioactive and/or extraordinarily rare. Is group 7 (with its nuclear instability as a generalized property) related to having 7 valence electrons to spare? Or being a Mills' catalyst? Or being "almost ferromagnetic"? Maybe so, maybe not. BTW +7 is a rarity valence for metals, but there are is a rarer one which has +8 oxidation states (osmium tetroxide) but +7 is the highest for a common metal - and there are few of them beside Mn that have this strange property. It is a property which can now be labeled as an "oxidizing ceramic" (which is a neologism, newly coined within the hour). In the textbooks, column 7B is a group of 4 iron-like transition metals: manganese (Mn), technetium (Tc), rhenium (Re), and bohrium (Bh) ... but only manganese has commercial importance (and is essential for life). But can Mn be responsible for anomalous energy as well? Maybe, and you may be hearing more about it in the coming weeks with respect to LENR, with or without nickel as an alloy - so that is why its making an introductory debut today. As it turns out, a large number of valence electrons, as a molecular possibility, even 7 of them which can turn operate to a ceramic into an oxidizer, is not a property for metals that has many known uses. Manganese is +7 in only a few common molecules - one of which you probably know about - potassium permanganate (KMnO4), which has been long know to have unusually energetic properties. However, the property of being an oxidizing-ceramic could be important, when trying to explain excess energy in the Rydberg multiple (or Millsean) sense since oxides when they become mobile, are never generous with the stolen electrons. First, one must find the excess energy, of course - but assuming we find it with manganese and hydrogen, it will probably be seen at that favorable Rydberg level near 108.8 eV which normally would be out of the question for a low energy reactor. However, a ceramic that becomes and oxidizer is an equally strange beast, especially if it can shuttle back and forth. And all of the permanganate permutations (manganate and higher) are like musical chairs, at least when there is excess potassium in the mix along with hydrogen. Jones
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